Lubbock's Congressman also talks budget, legislation to keep abortion providers out of school clinics

U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Lubbock, talked about upcoming congressional decisions on immigration reform, a new farm bill and reconciling Senate and House versions of the nation’s budget during a question-and-answer session with the Avalanche-Journal on Monday, March 25.

A-J: With President Barack Obama calling for Congress to present him with immigration reform in April, what are your goals for the nation’s immigration policy?

Neugebauer: “I support immigration. This is what this country was built on: The principles of immigration. People have immigrated here from all over the world. The problem is, today, we haven’t really updated our immigration policies in a long time and it really doesn’t meet what I think are today’s needs. For example, part of our immigration policy: We have a lottery. You put your name in a hat. We need people to help on a seasonal basis to gather crops. Also, out at Texas Tech and other universities all across the country, some of the brightest and best foreign students from other countries come to school here and the day that they graduate we ship them back to their countries. We need those people in our economy. We need doctors, engineers. And so how we do legal immigration in this country certainly needs reforming. The other piece of that is the border security piece and that is we need to know who and what is coming into this country. So we need to make sure everybody that’s coming here wants to enhance America ... We don’t have a good way of tracking when you come in and when you leave this country and so we’ve got to update our ability to monitor, keep track of people coming in and when they leave to make sure they leave when they’re supposed to.”

A-J: What are your goals as the House and Senate look to reconcile the differing budgets each chamber passed earlier this month?

Neugebauer: “My guess is, and it remains to be seen, that there will be a conference committee that will be put together to see if there can be some reconciliation there. My guess is, they’re so far apart — the Democrats want to raise taxes and we want to cut spending — that I’m not sure whether there’s any common ground there or not. That will be something the leadership will have to make that decision ... To me, the essential elements are that we need to quit spending money that we don’t have.”

A-J: As a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, what are your plans to introduce a five-year farm bill after the House opted not to vote on a farm bill in 2012?

Neugebauer: “I’m hopeful that we’ll bring the farm bill to the Agriculture Committee in April or May and get it passed out of committee so that we’ve got it ready to go to the House floor. And I’m certainly going to encourage House leadership to bring that bill to the floor, because we owe the farmers and ranchers and producers in this country a five-year farm bill to give them some certainty in what the farm policy in this country is going to be for awhile.”

A-J: Explain why you introduced the Protecting Life in Funding Education Act earlier this month restricting funding to school districts that contract with third party, school-based health centers unless they certify they won’t perform abortions and provide abortion referrals or materials to students?

Neugebauer: “It came to our attention that some school districts in the country are allowing third parties to come in to provide their health clinics in their schools and one of the entities that was partnershipping, we understand, is Planned Parenthood. There was some discussion about whether young women that are in the high school went to a Planned Parenthood clinic within the school was getting advice on how to get an abortion or should she get an abortion. We don’t think that’s the environment the tax payers should be supporting.”

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Oh! For the REAL truth from the Obama Administration and the Gang of Eight, as they are deliberately engineering their promises, that have been told through the mouthpieces of the Liberal Press. From what I have read and perceived there is not going to be anymore enforcement on the Southern border, than there has ever been. Illegal aliens are going to keep pouring into our country, so that goes to prove without a shadow of doubt, that lawmakers are not going to follow the law in building a the 2006 Secure Fences as signed into law by President Bush. They would rather spend hundreds of billions of dollars and unquestionably several trillion dollars soon (according to Heritage Foundation) of drawing up an immense big amnesty plan. They lied in 1986 after enacting the Simpson Mazzoli bill, that the courts and Congress would imprison business owners, who hired cheap labor and still do. Otherwise entry into America would be a felony. They are now going back on their word of mandatory E-Verify, and also they are having second thoughts about the birthright Citizenship Act, to repeal illegal alien children becoming citizens. Even the suggestion of producing a fraud proof national ID, has been classed as too expensive.

If you ask me the majority of people we send to Washington are out to feather their nests and don’t care I iota for the rest of us? Well May be that’s not quite true as a few strong hearts, not cringers or flip-floppers stand out from the rest. In name, Senator Sessions of Arkansas is a true American hero; then there are others who sustain their loyalty to the oath of allegiance. Rep. Gingrey's H.R.692 to rescind CHAIN MIGRATION, Rep. Smith's H.R.2164/H.R.2885, Rep. Shuler's H.R.2000, Rep. Carter's H.R.800, Rep. DeFazio's H.R.483, Rep. Miller's H.R.1196, Sen. Grassley's S.1196 all drafting bills for MANDATORY E-VERIFY; Rep. Goodlatte's H.R.704, Sen. Hatch's S.332, to end the VISA LOTTERY; Rep. King's H.R.140, Rep. Miller's H.R.1196, Sen. Vitter's S.723 to amend THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT;

In a late-night vote, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) offered an amendment on Friday to a budget bill passed by the Senate that would have prevented any illegal aliens that receive amnesty from accessing taxpayer-funded healthcare, including Medicaid or subsidized plans provided as part of the Affordable Health Care Act. The amendment was voted down 43-to-56, including being voted down by four Members of the Gang of Eight. The four GOP Members of the Senate Gang of Eight - Senators Marco Rubio, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham - all voted in favor of the amendment. The Democrat Members of the Gang of Eight voted against the amendment, exposing a potential divide between the Gang Members on the issue. In the principles issued by the Gang of Eight in January, the Senators agreed that illegal aliens that receive an amnesty would not be eligible for benefits from the Affordable Health Care Act.

The Obama Administration admitted on Thursday that it resisted efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to create a way to measure border security because it was concerned the measurement would be used to block immigration reform that provides an amnesty to the nation's 11-19 million illegal aliens. The news came after a House Committee hearing on Wednesday where DHS officials said they failed to create a measurement system after telling Congress that it would two years ago.In contrast to the Administration's thinking, both Republican and Democrat lawmakers told Mark Borkowski, a senior DHS official who testified before Congress on Wednesday, that they didn't want the Department to be the reason why immigration reform fails."The core legal and economic principle of immigration is that those seeking admission to a new country must be self-sufficient and contribute to the economic health of the nation," Sen. Sessions said in a press release after the vote. "But, for years, the federal government has failed to enforce this law. This principle is even more urgent when dealing with those who have illegally entered the country. "Yet today, the Senate Democrat majority voted to extend free and subsidized health care—specifically, Medicaid and Obama care—to illegal immigrants who would be granted legal status under any comprehensive immigration bill.”This will dramatically accelerate the insolvency of our entitlement programs and is unfair to American workers and taxpayers. "The result of today’s vote places immigration reform in jeopardy.” The vote broke down mostly across party lines, however, GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine both voted against the amendment.

Sitting on your hands isn’t going to do it, Remaining silent and not speaking out is a death warrant for all of us. I’m still trying to figure out why this Socialist Administration is buying and hoarding, billions of dollars worth of ammunition? Are they thinking that another 1776 Revolutionary War is about to happen? We dumped the King George III and his tax collectors over TEA, but in this case we are being taxed to pay for illegal alien’s financial support. It’s time the people of America to speak up, before our country is overrun with even more foreign nationals, who will arrive here in droves once the Gang of Eight broadcasts another Amnesty.

After this potential incentive for illegal migrants/immigrants arriving from every corner of the world, I am expecting that President Obama will go back on his promise and affix them to the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). No matter how demanding your time is, it is of supreme importance to phone, fax, email, send a postcard or take a personal trip to confront each and every member of Congress, including you state Representative. It is your taxes you will be spending on the illegal aliens already here, and those encouraged to the upcoming Amnesty, Path to Citizenship or suchlike passes? It really doesn't matter if you're in the last generation ethnic majority, minority or whether you arrived here for South of the border, Europe, The Pacific or Caribbean islands, Asia or any location and you came here LEGALLY, that all of us are in jeopardy from paying higher taxes to make it comfortable for illegal aliens; not just illegal aliens but for citizens and residents that prey on the rest of us as pampered welfare recipient who pays no taxes, but still collect state money or even phone the Washington phone terminal at (202) 224-3121 to contact your member of Congress. Illegal aliens also fall into this category as low income, but many have good incomes from fraud; collecting child tax credits reimbursement, for over 7 billion annually and the IRS does nothing? Many facts will be exposed that the Liberal Press are hiding, plus the urgently inform your Representative in Washington by going to NumbersUSA. Also available at NumbersUSA is where you can join the hundreds of thousands of Americans, who have signed the NO PATH TO CITIZENSHIP OR ANY FORM OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL MIGRANTS OR IMMIGRANTS.

is an appropriate nick for you. You tried to write an entire encyclopedia in one single post to the AJ. No one read the entire Britannica, and they're not likely to read that post, either. Straighten your tin foil hat. You'll feel better.